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Reflex is Gábor Lázár's debut album on raster. His new record is a collection of seven tracks, featuring an extended sound palette of percussions and synthesizers drawing listeners attention towards the essential soundscapes of techno while maintaining his distinct, uncompromising and meticulously detailed style. While the tracks do not follow traditional narratives, the album has an evolution: it gently builds up from challenging, unpredictable, and organically composed structures to linear yet playful forms of techno-infused tracks, taking listeners on a journey from home listening environments to club contexts. The senses are stimulated by micro-variations of textures and patterns, leading to the feeling of here and now. Gábor's consistent production techniques and intuitive compositional approach work together coherently, addressing the listener's cognition from different angles simultaneously, offering a variety of ways for the listener to get immersed.
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LP version. Reflex is Gábor Lázár's debut album on raster. His new record is a collection of seven tracks, featuring an extended sound palette of percussions and synthesizers drawing listeners attention towards the essential soundscapes of techno while maintaining his distinct, uncompromising and meticulously detailed style. While the tracks do not follow traditional narratives, the album has an evolution: it gently builds up from challenging, unpredictable, and organically composed structures to linear yet playful forms of techno-infused tracks, taking listeners on a journey from home listening environments to club contexts. The senses are stimulated by micro-variations of textures and patterns, leading to the feeling of here and now. Gábor's consistent production techniques and intuitive compositional approach work together coherently, addressing the listener's cognition from different angles simultaneously, offering a variety of ways for the listener to get immersed.
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RAVE 023LP
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Techno mutant Gábor Lázár morphs two-step and warped electropes with futuristic tension and torsion on Unfold, the Hungarian artist's first solo double LP for The Death Of Rave. The eight-track album follows a busy 2017 for Gábor in which he released Crisis Of Representation with Shelter Press (SHELTER 076CD/LP, 2017), heard his music played in numerous Aphex Twin live/DJ shows, and also toured the EU with Josh Eustis and Turk Dietrich's Second Woman -- an experience which fed directly into the sharper defined rhythms and plasmic mentasms of this album; arguably Gábor's definitive solo release. Kerning classic styles with devious ballistics according to a mutant syntax reflected in the LP's bespoke sleeve art, Gábor galvanizes his signature flux of zinging mentasms and hyper rhythms with a cyber-mongrel gnash in Unfold. Drawing from the deeply affective and rude ends of South Yorkshire, Detroit, and South London tech-nous for inspiration, Gábor consolidates their mutual aspects by trimming the excess and stressing the funkiest points of syncopation with razor sharp, inventive edits. Whilst instantly recognizable as Gábor's work, his grooves are more pronounced, and this time unusually riddled with melodic gestures that lead to moments of unexpected emotive relief. In the contemporary field, Unfold firmly lives up to comparison with the retro-futurism of Mark Fell's Sensate Focus, the advanced playfulness of Errorsmith's Superlative Fatigue (PAN 081LP), or the fluidly knotted syncopation of Jlin, but with a singular mesh of style and pattern that Gábor can patently declare his own. Gábor Lázár lives and works in Budapest. He self-released a split tape with Russell Haswell in 2013; then I.L.S. (2013), and Crisis Of Representation (2017), beside his EP16 (RAVE 006LP, 2014), and a collaboration with Mark Fell The Neurobiology of Moral Decision Making for The Death of Rave (RAVE 010LP, 2015), and remixes of Second Woman and Jesse Osborne Lintier & Grischa Lichtenberger. Gábor has toured his live show extensively in Europe, held artist residencies at HeK, Basel; EMS, Stockholm; and 4DSound Amsterdam, and was a SHAPE Platform Artist of 2017. Typeface design and layout by Daniel Kozma. Mastering and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
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Prodigious Hungarian minimalist Gábor Lázár twists out six cuts of super-forward avant-techno on his debut vinyl, EP16, for The Death Of Rave. Combining viscerally affective electronic timbre and hyperkinetic patterns, they're real-time recordings of Gábor extracting maximum funk from a single note rendered as sheer gradients pitched and punctuated with unique, algorithmic meters. In a sense the process is drily academic, but the results are seriously funked-up. Gábor seemingly intersects myriad minimal dancefloor patterns -- hardcore, footwork, electro, digital dancehall -- with uncompromising electronic tones to create some kinda new rhythmelodic syntax and grammar of his own. Cannily nudging every scything, whirring, strobing hit off-the-grid, he's practically re-programming and skewing our sense of rhythmic proprioception and temporal awareness in real time, throwing down the gauntlet to body and brain with stoic rigor and reckless effect. EP16 follows Gábor's split tape with Russell Haswell for his Budapest-based Last Foundation, plus his debut album, ILS (2014) for Lorenzo Senni's Presto?! label, and precedes an upcoming 2LP collaboration with Mark Fell, due on The Death Of Rave. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
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